The New England Patriots managed to secure the AFC East title with a good win over a battling Buffalo Bills team. However, the league's focus has already shifted to the controversy involving a video team associated with the Patriots taking footage of the Cincinnati Bengals sideline during their loss to the Cleveland Browns.

As the investigations progress, there are new angles being considered by NFL-sanctioned investigators. They are now interviewing all relevant personnel if the crew confronted by the Bengals security actually had something to do with the team's football operations.

Per Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk:

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Per multiple sources with knowledge of the situation, NFL investigators spent time in recent days interviewing members of the Patriots organization, more than a week after a videographer shot images of the Bengals’ sideline during a game in Cleveland. The Patriots contend that the video crew had no connection to the team’s football operations.

League investigators also collected devices from certain individuals, for the purposes of attempting to establish a connection to the team’s football operations. As one source explained it, there’s a sense that investigators want to make that connection, and a perception that they are showing frustration when unable to tie the video crew to the football employees.

The lead person of the video team in question, David Mondillo, explained that their intentions were misread and that they were only taking footage of the Bengals sideline as part of the Pats-centric documentary they have been working on. Depending on the results of the investigation, the Patriots could lose an important draft pick in the upcoming 2020 Draft.